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Today's story: "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

Contributors

Presenter:
Chloe Ashcroft
Presenter:
Brian Cant
Author (Gulliver's Travels):
Jonathan Swift
Pianist:
Paul Reade
Designer:
Louise Vanson
Scriptwriter:
Judy Whitfield
Director:
Anne Gobey
Producer:
Ann Reay
Series Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

"March 24th - Began with a discussion with my mother. Subject Being Handicapped by my sex and youth. To escape held up relations between Jesus and Papa against those between Mary and her son. Said religion was a lying-in hospital. Mother indulgent... Then she said I would come back to faith because I had a restless mind. This means to leave church by back door of sin and re-enter through the skylight of repentance."
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Alan Brien asks Michael Frayn, Richard King, Mary McCarthy, Stephen Spender

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Brien
Panellist:
Michael Frayn
Panellist:
Richard King
Panellist:
Mary McCarthy
Panellist:
Stephen Spender
Reader:
Peter Eyre
Devised by:
Brigid Brophy
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
Julian Jebb

A worldwide investigation into current research on the Brain and human nature
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson

The human brain is the most subtle of all the works of nature, an end product of thousands of millions of years of evolution. But can it yet understand itself? Can human mental powers be explained in terms of the machinery inside our heads? This programme shows that in many laboratories an attempt has now begun.

In New Delhi a Yogi shows that his mind can control his body in impossible ways. In New York a healthy volunteer reduces his blood pressure just by wishing to do so. In Moscow one of the world's leading specialists shows the predictable mental effects in patients with damage to specific areas of their brain. From Lyons and Edinburgh the latest opinions on sleeping and dreaming. In Munich we watch an experiment with a radio-controlled monkey, and in Santa Barbara, California, we meet 'Sara,' a seven-year-old chimpanzee who boasts a vocabulary of 150 word-symbols.

Also in California we meet a housewife whose brain has been surgically split down the middle. Although she leads a fairly normal life at home, laboratory tests show that she possesses two independent minds under the one skull - evidence that consciousness is tied to the living tissues of the brain.
Written by Nigel Calder
A BBC co-production with Swedish, Bavarian and American NET networks

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Narrator:
Marius Goring
Writer:
Nigel Calder
Executive Producer:
Philip Daly

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